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Things I need to remember:
• Asking for help is not, as it turns out, fatal.
• Laughing is easier than pulling your hair out, and doesn't have the unfortunate side effect of making you look like a plague victim.
• Even the biggest tasks can be defeated if taken a bit at a time.
• I can write a paper the night before it's due, but the results are not all they could be.
• Be thorough, but focused.
• Trust yourself.
• Honesty, always.
Historians are the Cassandras of the Humanities
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Date: May 9th, 2010 05:27 am (UTC)Personally, I've had my empirical proof. The first problem is that it's so transient that "catching" it with witnesses and physical traces is difficult.
But more generally, the second problem is that any intelligent life that may be visiting us seems hellbent on not cooperating with that "leaving proof" thing-- and that may not be accidental.
Finally, because of the severe bias against the mere possibility that WE could actually be visited by intelligent life from elsewhere-- even the proof that IS found... is ignored. One of the biggest problems those who come into contact with this intelligent life and get proof (stuff from ships, implants left in bodies, etc.) is that NO scientist will DARE to look at it due to fear of their careers being utterly ruined for EVEN LOOKING. Not kidding.
So-- I think to get past those "empirical proof" blocks we'll need something big that's both publicly shared and undeniable. Which, to the minds of most, means a "show" apparently. An actual alien, dead or alive, would help. A ship that lands in the middle of a city. That type of thing.
I don't blame you, though, for holding the opinion you do. It would be mine had I not had so many encounters of my own (with, at least once, physical proof-- that I didn't show to anyone, as MY life and privacy were more important than facing a hostile public/scientific community!)